About classes at The Art League school: We offer a full range of day, evening, and weekend courses in the fine arts and fine crafts. Professional artists teach our classes. The school also offers youth classes and summer camps for ages 5 to 17.

About registration: The Art League invites you to enroll in person, online, by mail, or via fax. Enrollment priority goes to those who register in person. On the first day of registration, the office opens promptly at 9:30 am. Enrollment is first-come, first-served. Registrations will be processed in the following order of priority: in-person, online, faxed, and then mailed. Any registrations received in advance of 9:30 am on the first day of registration will be considered "early" and are processed at the end of the day.

Enrollment is ongoing until classes are filled. The Art League School office is located in Room 216 on the second floor of the Torpedo Factory Art Center.

In "That Which Was Once Whole," Dennis Crayon uses scraps of photos as starting points for his paintings and expands outward, extrapolating to fill in everything outside the bounds of the snapshot. Only there is no snapshot­; it’s all one painting. Crayon, a skilled trompe-l’œil artist, tricks the eye with delicately painted edges and perfectly painted pieces of tape. For Crayon, this is a way of exploring and thinking about the past, and compares his photo scraps to the fragments left of Pompeian frescoes. However, with the frescoes the viewer must take a guess at what was around the fragments to understand the culture and time; in "That Which Was Once Whole," Crayon leads the way and guides the viewer through history.
Gallery hours:
Monday–Saturday: 10:00 am–6:00 pm
Thursday: 10:00 am–9:00 pm
Sunday: 12:00 noon–6:00 pm

Humans are creatures of habit. We have our daily routines and rituals, our favorite places and things. Some habits, like volunteering or recycling, better society, the planet, and ourselves. Other habits tend to have a negative impact, like drug addiction or alcohol abuse. Some practices are as simple as brushing our teeth every morning, yet others are harder to achieve, like saving money or losing weight.

Artists are encouraged to examine habits, patterns, routines, and rituals – either in the context of their own lives, their own artwork, different cultures, or humanity as a whole.

The Art League’s annual Student/Faculty exhibit showcases the diversity and talent of our prestigious visual arts school in Old Town Alexandria, VA. Our gallery features works by our accomplished and acclaimed faculty of artists, alongside hundreds of paintings, drawings, prints, stained glass works, jewelry, ceramics, pottery, fiber pieces, mosaics, and sculptures created by our student body. Learn more about this exhibit here.